IT whiz unveils handy homework app

FOLLOWING several years of ideation and six months of development, Bendigo parent and education IT professional Alex Bracken has launched his new online Australian curriculum-aligned primary school homework platform.

Sukindi – an amalgamation of his own children’s names – has been designed with the express purpose of reducing stress for families and to support learning at home.

After watching many parents struggle to confidently support their children’s homework without becoming an “at-home teacher”, Mr Bracken said he built the app to provide structured weekly practice across reading, writing and maths in a way that children enjoy and parents can easily track.

“The three main pillars were that it needed to be curriculum-aligned, which comes from my teaching experience; it needed to be fun enough for the kids to actually want to do it, and it also needed to be easy for parents to use,” he said.

“From there, I’ve also been adding elements of learning experiences outside of the digital realm.

“For example, there’s cooking, art and science activities that are baked into the app, and they’re physical hands-on tasks.”

He said as a former primary teacher he had used plenty of software in the classroom and “a lot of it that wasn’t particularly great (and) some of it was really good”.

“When I finally had the opportunity to sit down and dedicate some time to developing my own thing I took what I know works well and avoided what doesn’t.”

Sukindi is now being trialled by families across the region, and Mr Bracken would love more people to get involved.

You can watch a demonstration and start a seven-day free trial at sukindi.com.au